[The Guardian] Together (A) Part - inside the Bruderhof Community | photo essay

Together (A) Part - inside the Bruderhof Community | photo essay

Photographer Danny Burrows has spend 2 years documenting the Anabaptist pacifist Christian Bruderhof community, their traditions and their calling to live in community in Hoffs in Australia, Germany, the United States and the United Kingdom

2020 is the centenary year of the Bruderhof, an Anabaptist pacifist Christian community created in the turbulent wake of the First World War.

In 1920, inspired by the German youth movement, Christian theologist Eberhart Arnold and his followers moved to the remote mountain village of Sannerz, in German, to create the first hof (community), modelled on the early Hutterian Church and First Church of Jerusalem. Money, property and possessions would be shared and service to the wider community enshrined in their way of life.

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